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.Patented Feb. '7, 188.8.`

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(No'Model.) v A. SCHNIER 8v S. R'. SMITH.

FEED MBCHANISM FOR SAW MILL 'GARRIAGBS.

UNITED `STMES ANTHONY soHNrER AND SAMUEL n. sMrrH, orr` CINCINNATI,

SIGNORS TO SMITH, MYERS & SCHNIER, OF vSAME PLACE.

FEED-.MECHANISM FOR siAWfMlLL CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATlON forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,469, dated February 7, 1888.

Application elec March 2s, rsa1. kseria] No. 2:11686;v (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that we, ANTHONY SCHNIER and SAMUEL B. SMITH, residents of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed Mechanism for Saw- Mill Carriages, of which the following isa specification.

Our invention relates to a saw-mill feed. The object of our invention is to produce a cheap, rapid, and effective device byjwhich the carriage carrying the log can be driven rapidly, stopped, started, and reversed instantly with a small expenditureof power 1 5 and bya simple arrangement of themachinery, all of which will be fully set forth in the de'- scription of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure lisa side elevation, partly in section, of our invention in position for use. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged central sectional view of. the valvechamber. Fig. 4 represents a modification of the method o f constructing and attaching the 2 5 cable to the piston. l

1 represents th'e sills on which the carriagetrucks 2 are mounted.

3 represents the saw-mill carriage.

4 represents the wheels on which the samel are mounted and carried. l

5l represents multiplying windlass drums placed at each end of the carriage. 6 represents the axles on which the same are mounted. It is desiredtor have the upper periphery of the drums nearly on aline with the chains or cables 7, which are preferably attached to the block 8 under the carriage. By making thev peripheries nearlyT on a line with the attaching-point 8 the carriage is driven by power and with 'small amount of strain upon the parts. v

9 represents a secondary driving drum mounted on the said shaft 6, and rigidlyl securedto the larger drum, 5.

10 represents a steam-cylinder; 11, a steampiston to which are attachedy piston-rods 12,

which work in stufng-boxes 13 at either end of the cylinder. j l

14 represents coupling for attaching said 5o piston-rods-tothe cables or` chains 15, which are wrapped around the drums 9. y The lower peripheries of these drums 9 are on aline with the piston-rods; whereby the direct pull'is-` made from the piston-rodsto the drivingv cables or chains 15. The drumsv 9 in a periph- 55 eral line are, say, onethird the length of the f 4' peripheral line of the drums 5.'l By this means the cylinder-'10 will only beone-,third the length of the entire travel ofthe carriage. ,Y Thus a carriage which 'is required to travel .60 thirty feet will only require a ten-foot drivingcylinder. We do not limit our invention lto thisy proportion ofthe multiplying power of the drums. A 1

16 represents the steam-pipe for delivering k65,- l

the steamto the cylinder 10. f 'i y i 17 represents the'valvefchamber, in which is placed a cylindrical shell-valve, 18.

19 represents one of the feeding-ports, and@ 20 represents the other steam-port; 2l, the ex. O haust-port; 22, a reduction in the size of I`the shell-valve toallow the steam to be admitted.v from either port to the exhaust.

Fig. 3 shows the valve in position for the cylinder taking steam through port 19 and 75 exhausting through port 20. -23 represents a bridge connected to the top of the valve 18.

24 represents the Valve-stem projecting up A. through the stuftingbox 25.v 26 represents the valve-lever. 27 represents a crank-arm A8,0 pivoted to the valve-stem 24. KLVAs the lever 26 c is moved either'side of the perpendicular, itl v cuts off the steam from one end of the cylinder and admits it to the other. 28 represents the weight. connected by a cable, 29, to the lower l end of the lever 26. 30 represents frictionrollers, between which the rope 29 passes.v The object of these devices is to hold the lever perpendicular with the' steam cutoff, so that l Y if by accident the lever should be released by 9o the operator the steam would be instantly cut ofi" and the carriage stoppedyand it also enc ables the operator toreadily stop the machine Without danger of throwing the lever past the center. v r c 31 representssteam-pipes leading from the l valve to either end of the steam-cylinder..

By means of this device we are enabled to employ a comparatively short steam-cylinder' for driving a saw-mill carriage, and by means roo of multiplying-drums are enabled to obtain a direct pull upon the piston-rod and saw-mill carriage, respectively.

In the modification, Fig. 4, We have shown the piston-head constructed of two sections, ct b. c c represent gas-pipes, each securely connected to its respective section of pistonhead a b, and passing through the stuffing-boxes d. e represents cables passing' through the gaspipes c, and securely fastened-to the section of the piston-head by a knot, f, or other suitable means. The object of employing this form of connection is twofold; first, it lighteus the piston-rod, and, second, it allows the cable a lateral travelon the nf'indingdrurns 9 Without strain on the pistonrod.

,Having described our invention, whatwe elaini as new isn l. In asaW-mill, the combination, with the carriage and the track supporting` the same, of a centrally-located cylinder having its pis ton-rod projecting from both ends, multiplying-drums located at the ends of the track, and each connected by cords with the piston rod and with t-he carriage, and a central lever controlling,` the mechanism, substantially as de scribed.

2. The combination, with the carriage and atrack on which it moves,of a centrally-located cylinder having a piston-rod which projects both Ways from the piston and passes through both ends of the cylinder, multiplyingdrums at the ends of the track, each connected with the piston and with the carriage, and a eentral lever having a weight by which the valve is normally balanced between the ports, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the carriage, the track, and a centrally-located cylinder, of tubular pistenrods projecting from both sides of the piston and passing through both 4ends of the cylinder, and'cords passing 'from the drums at the ends of the track through the tubular piston-rods and connected to the pis ton, substantially as described.

In testimonyv whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

ANTHONY SG'IINIER. SAMUE L It. SMITH.

lVitnesscs:

ROBERT ZAHNER, M. E. BIILLIKAN. 

